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West Africa

Guinea
Friguia: Barclays Bank Enters Picture

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that Barclays Bank in London has offered $75 million to Guinea’s government for the Friguia alumina [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.01.2006

Burkina Faso
High River Gold Farms Out Licenses

As it did with Jilbey Gold four years ago, High River Gold Mines Ltd has just formed a strategic alliance [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.01.2006

Canada, Ghana
Pelangio Mines Inc

Pelangio Mines Inc (Canada) is examining a report by the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.01.2006

Guinea
Mitsubishi Takes Bauxite Position

Two months after undertaking a prospecting trip to Guinea (AMI [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.01.2006

Guinea
Indians Eye Friguia

A group of officials from the firm Aswal Industries Limited [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.01.2006

Mauritania
Seeking a Partner

Mauritanian oil minister Mohamed Aly Ould Sidi Mohamed indicated early this month that Nouakchott was still hunting for a partner [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Ivory Coast
Australian in Offshore Gambit

Listed on London’s AIM and run by several veterans of oil exploration in Africa, Australia’s Procarbon company has bought the CI-202 license. The acreage was withdrawn from Africa Petroleum last September.

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Equatorial Guinea
Chinese Pick Up Acreage

Chinese companies have begun doing serious business in Equatorial Guinea following president Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s lengthy visit to Beijing in November.

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Nigeria
And on Akpo, too

In the wake of ONGC Videsh’s withdrawal, CNOOC is to buy up South Atlantic’s stake on Akpo.

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Nigeria
Licensing Round Turns Sour

Nearly half of the consortia which won concessions in a bidding round last August seem certain to lose them.

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Nigeria
Afren’s Influential Partner

By acquiring a stake in the Akepo marginal field in Nigeria, Afran teamed up with a well-connected Nigerian businessman.

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Ghana
Major Boost for Power Sector

The World Bank is to unveil a $160 million funding program for power projects in Ghana dubbed Energy Development & [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Nigeria
Dangote to Build Own Stations

Like other private businesses in Nigeria, a conglomerate headed by Alhaji Aliko Dangote plans to build its own power plants in the country.

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Nigeria
Mohammed Barkindo

Nigeria’s representative to OPEC for the past 14 years, Mohammed Barkindo has been named secretary-general of the organization. On Jan. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Ivory Coast
Leon E. Monnet

Ivory Coast’s oil minister since October, 2000, Leon Emmanuel Monnet retained his portfolio in a government re-shuffle in Abidjan in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Equatorial Guinea | gepetrol
Correction

Miguel Edjang Angue, deputy managing director of Equatorial Guinea’s state-owned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Niger
Two Wells This Year

According to its partner TG World Energy, the China National [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Nigeria | livingston group
Virgin Nigeria’s Adviser

The carrier Virgin Nigeria, which is 51% owned by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Niger | platform
New Book on Niger Delta

To mark the 10th anniversary of the execution of Ogoni [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

West Africa
Nigeria Oil & Gas 2006

The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the International [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.01.2006

Spotlight | Guinea
The Third Railway Man

The Christmas gift came a bit early in Conakry when, on Dec. 20, the three-sided panel for the Transguineen rail project signed a contract with the German consultancies DE-Consult and Inros Lackner to update a study conducted in 2000 on [.

Subscribers only Mining 03.01.2006

Ghana
Ex German Minister in Gold Deal

According to our sources, Gerhart Rudolph Baum, a former German interior minister between 1978-82 under the FDP liberal party banner, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.01.2006

Liberia, Nigeria
Akin Adeoye

A leading Nigerian businessman, Akin Adeoye has been traveling a lot of Liberia in recent times. A firm of which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.01.2006

Nigeria
South Koreans Look at Uranium

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that the Korean Institute of Geoscience [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.01.2006

Guinea
Dundee Puts Money on Cassidy

A Canadian company that owns the Chelopech gold mine in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.01.2006

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